Powtawche Valerino

Powtawche N. Valerino is an American mechanical engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She worked as a navigation engineer for the Cassini mission. Valerino was born to a Mississippi Choctaw mother and African-American father. Quotes If having access to instruments impacts other students as it did me, kids would have more opportunities to engage with a broader group of people and to gain greater understanding of the world. Reach out to teachers and school counselors who can connect you to science and engineering camps. I spent my formative years on the Choctaw Indian reservation in Philadelphia, Mississpi, and in Missoula, Montana, where I loved playing outdoors, watching farm animals, and observing everything around me. I believe living in these settings motivated me to explore and respect nature. External links Category:Women engineers from the United States Category:Mechanical engineers Category:Women academics from the United States Category:NASA people Category:Native Americans Category:21st-century African-American women Category:Living people Category:People from New Orleans Category:Stanford University alumni